Pictures from Boston Marathon Memorial debut

Visitors at the Boston Public Library looked at artifacts in a public exhibition of objects and mementos left at the makeshift memorials that emerged in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. The exhibit "Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial" opened Monday, April 7.
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Boston, MA--4/7/2014--Ashley Lyne (cq) and her father Tom Lyne (cq), both of Plymouth, look at a display case. The exhibit "Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial" opens Monday, April 7, 2014, at the Boston Public Library. Photos by Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Topic: 08exhibi Reporter: XXX
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Amy Berken, of Stamford, Conn., added her own "hope for the future" to a tree of messages.
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Three spectators were killed and more than 260 injured when two bombs exploded on Marathon Monday, which prompted a massive manhunt for suspects later identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, two brothers from Chechnya, living in Cambridge.
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